The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


quotations: Wheat--No. 2. S3]S@S3l4c.
Corn-No. 8, 3614@361lc. Oats-No. 2,3O1zc.
Rye-No. ], 5Sc Barley-No. 2. 5115c.
The Chippewa Falls wooden mills were
badly damaged by fire the other day,
caused by spontaneous combustion. The
loss was about $12, 600; insurance, $1,000
The report that the widow of the late
Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, would
contest his will, is declared to be un.
founded.
The a. D. Hayward, a new eam-barge,
was launched the other day at Manitowoc.
In the circuit court III Waukesha the
other day Miss Anna NJ. Oleson, aged
thirty-one years, got Judgment for $500
against Martin Salvorson for breach of
promise Both live in OconOmowoc,
where the defendant is rich lumbcTman.
Miss Oleson was courted three years.
Most of tie tornado insurance companies
refuse to accept risks on tobacco sheds.
Joseph Wingfeldt and Martin Burt, of
New Richmond, ST. Croix County, were
killed a few days ago by the arch of a
cistern which fell upon them while they
were removing the framework.
A new Congregational Church has been
formed at Milwaukee
The post office at Orlo, Manitowoc Coun-
ty, which was discontinued some time
ago, has been restored, with Simon
Bremen as postmaster.
In brushing away fly the other day a
Berlin shoemaker stuck an awl through
his ear.
Cranberry report the pros
poets, so far as the bushes are concerned,
encouraging for large yield of berries.
The water has very generally been drawn
of, and the bushes are laden with bios.
SONS and appear in healthy condition.
Daniel Allen of Loyal, Clark County,
tried last fall and found guilty of the muir
der of Henry Wright, broke Jail at Neils-
vile the other night and got away with
out leaving clew. He picked the locks
of five doors. He was believed to have
had skillful assistance in escaping.
The largest tobacco warehouse in the
State, owned by Turner q Dearborn and
Atkinson Bros, at Stoughton, caught fire
about 1880 o'clock the other morning. The
building was divided through the center
by fire-proof wall, so that one-half was
saved. Between three thousand and four
thousand cases of tobacco were burned
The total loss was 100000.
About seventy sheep were killed by dogs
at hartford, Green Lake County, few
days ago.
A man convicted of vagrancy in the Mil
waukee municipal court few days ago
fell dead in the prison-Wagon while being
taken to the house Of correction.
The La Crosse court recently overruled
the motion for new trial of Charles Press,
who had been twice convicted of the MUIR
der of Nels White, and sentenced him to
Imprisonment for life.
Chinch bugs have destroyed half the
barley crop in the neighborhood of Wau-
nakee, Dane County, and farmers fear the
pest Will ravage fields of other grain.
Drought has burned up half of the grass
crop in that vicinity.
The Armour Packing Company, of Chi
cago, will establish branch wholesaleing
house in Ashland.
A town OF Milwaukee farmer was re-
Gently sentenced to pay a fine of seventy
five dollars or spend ninety days in the
house of correction for selling team of
horses upon which he had given a chattel
mortgage.
The annual report Of the Milwaukee
Brewers Association for the year ended
May l, 1887, shows the amount of beer sold
by the nine breweries of the city TO have
been 1,217, rs barrels, an increase of 106,-
632 barrels over the aggregate sales of the
previous year The cash value of this
product was nearly $4,000, 0O0
Frank Hover, clerk in PRICES boarding
house, at Hurley, had an alteration with
man named Anderson the other night
and shot him dead.
The Milwaukee Girls Cooperative
Dress and Cloalmaking Company, with
a capital Of $500, was incorporated re-
Gently at Madison.
New York, Boston and Chicago capital.
lists have arranged to start smelling
works at Eau Claire, which will cost $780,
900 and give employment to fifteen hum
dred men.
Burglars took $500 worth of watches
and jewelry and some money from the
store of Hotchkiss & Newell, at Osseo,
Trempelaeau County, the other night
DIR. Smith, of Port " Washington, Ozaukee
County, tried recently to hold his runaway
team by the bit of one of the horses, and
was thrown down and the calf of his leg
nearly torn of.
Large numbers of bears are daily killed
in the vicinity of Eau Claire.
Grace Hawthorn, in London, has the
lease of a number of theaters, and is said
to be drawing splendid audiences regular
ly. Her career abroad is a great surprise
to those who knew her as Grace Cortland
in Wisconsin, when playing with her
drunken hus band, John Murray.
Milwaukee will build seven new school,.
houses, the whole lot to cost $3.50, 900.
The other morning Henry SaraU. aged
sixty-four years, who lived with his SON
in law in the town of Wilson, ShebOygan
County, was found lying under a wagon
with his head suspended by strap around
his neck, causing death by stran gulation,
and evidently by has own hand.
A dynamite cap exploded the other day
in the hands of two-year old son Of An
drew Ortscheid, of Lancaster, and the lit
tie one would lose his left had.
Dr. Charles Bruil, who died recently in
the Iowa County Jail while under arrest
for the murder of his wife, has been
identified as Charles Fridcly, formerly d
citizen of Arkansas, who also lived in
Southern Illinois, where he served a terra
in the pen Tertiary.
ne ClOlHSS Ol mary NyulHdfI, VI Lincoln,
were ignted from a stove a few days ago,
and she was so badly burned that she died
soon alter.
George Dickey, wealthy lumberman,
was run over at Spooner few days ago,
losing an arm and sustaining serious in
ternal injuries.
The State Board of Supervisors elected
officers at Madison a few days ago for
the ensuing year as follows; Charles
Luling, of Manitowoc, President; Lewis
A. Proctor, of Milwaukee, ce-President;
S. S. Comfy, of Madison, Secretary.
A child of Charles Blaine, of Monroe,
Green County, barely able to walk, fell
into the creek few days ago and was
drowned.
prehistoric mound was opened recent
ly at Dead lake, near Madison by d. w.
North and Fred Phillips. The position Of
the human skeleton which they unearthed
indicated that it had been buried in a sits
ting position with the haAds clasped
around one knee. Owing to its decayed
condition, few Of the teeth only were
preserved. One perfect arrowhead was
found, while near the skull were several
broken and unfinished fiints and beavers
tooth.
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